Research Proposal and Preliminary Reference Page
Research Proposal and Preliminary Reference Page
Lakrisha Fletcher
ENG122
Ellen Quinn
January 3, 2012
Topic selection: Reasons and plans for my paper I decided to choose the topic titled “Values portrayed in popular media”. I found this to be an interesting topic or “gut-feeling” when thinking about all the choices of topics. I feel this topic may be kind of a personal topic as well because I plan to make it out to be interesting.
I plan to positively limit my topic by doing some preliminary research on the subject. Preliminary research helps me decide which parts of a selected topic to study based on if there is enough, too much, or too little information available (Sole, 2010). I then plan to form a hypothesis to be asked so I can find different types of aspects to cover in my paper to prove or disprove my hypothesis. After this, I can create an outline of the paper I want to put together. I have had to face some challenges while searching for the information on my topic I have chosen. One of these challenges was having trouble choosing from all the different ways that I can branch my topic off to. I first was thinking about researching how the media affects preteens by portraying a glamorous life of being famous. On the other hand, I also wanted to see how the average father figure really matched up to the standards of father figures portrayed in today’s media. I feel that I will end up going in the direction of how the average father figure really matched up to the standards of father figures portrayed in today’s media. I find this limitation of the topic to be very interesting because I personally grew up without a father figure and would like to see how the average father compares to the loving and caring ones I have seen on many of today’s television shows. I think this will make me feel more at ease in my own mind of wondering what my life would have been like with a father in the house if I had not been adopted out to a widowed mother.
Lakrisha Fletcher
ENG122
Ellen Quinn
January 3, 2012
Topic selection: Reasons and plans for my paper I decided to choose the topic titled “Values portrayed in popular media”. I found this to be an interesting topic or “gut-feeling” when thinking about all the choices of topics. I feel this topic may be kind of a personal topic as well because I plan to make it out to be interesting.
I plan to positively limit my topic by doing some preliminary research on the subject. Preliminary research helps me decide which parts of a selected topic to study based on if there is enough, too much, or too little information available (Sole, 2010). I then plan to form a hypothesis to be asked so I can find different types of aspects to cover in my paper to prove or disprove my hypothesis. After this, I can create an outline of the paper I want to put together. I have had to face some challenges while searching for the information on my topic I have chosen. One of these challenges was having trouble choosing from all the different ways that I can branch my topic off to. I first was thinking about researching how the media affects preteens by portraying a glamorous life of being famous. On the other hand, I also wanted to see how the average father figure really matched up to the standards of father figures portrayed in today’s media. I feel that I will end up going in the direction of how the average father figure really matched up to the standards of father figures portrayed in today’s media. I find this limitation of the topic to be very interesting because I personally grew up without a father figure and would like to see how the average father compares to the loving and caring ones I have seen on many of today’s television shows. I think this will make me feel more at ease in my own mind of wondering what my life would have been like with a father in the house if I had not been adopted out to a widowed mother.